The author of novels like White Teeth and On Beauty, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction, Zadie Smith has also proven herself as a remarkable essayist, with pieces published in the New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, the New York Times, and London's Guardian. This first collection of her essays highlights writing, with pieces under four sectionsóReading, Being, Seeing, and Feelingóon such subjects as literature, movies, going to the Oscars, British comedy, family, feminism, Obama, Katharine Hepburn, and Anna Magnani.